California has new legislation, which means that any provider of an operating system must ascertain the age of the user ...

As governments push stricter online child safety rules, digital rights advocates warn about the risks of collecting IDs and ...

Several measures amended into House Bill 96, Ohio's biennial budget, sought to make adult content websites verify users’ ages ...

Discord's controversial new age verification requirements will be delayed until at least the latter half of 2026, after the ...

Discord is postponing its controversial age verification policy after users of the popular platform for gamers to communicate online expressed strong objections and privacy concerns.

Discord has been hearing gamers' feedback on its age verification update and has decided to delay the update until it makes ...

Requiring internet users to verify their ages before accessing mature content may sound reasonable. Shouldn’t we be doing a better job protecting kids from online vulgarities? But free speech ...

Discord, the popular online communication platform for gamers, said Wednesday it will delay its global age verification ...

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) remains focused on children’s privacy and the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).

The company built Zero-Knowledge Proof (ZKP) into Google Wallet earlier this year, a technology that allows users to verify ...

Admitting it made some missteps when it announced the changes, Discord is pushing those modifications back to later this year.

Assembly Bill 1043 becomes a law in California in January 2027, and will require every operating system to have age verification in account setup.